any love for the vintage? the old Schwinn P14's have always made me randy, but a friend of mind just bought an old Fuji that is pretty pretty pretty god damn nice.

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Jeez, 44 looks and no reply. I'd love to try a vintage track frame. I'm on a Vitus, Bridgestone RB1, and a stripped Centurian. It would be grand to try track geometery.
I hope someone who knows something chimes in at any time, now.

ok i'll try to answer this, but i'm drunk my bike is of a 1951 vintage according ton it's serial numer

my debernardi is a '99. that's gotta be vintage by now...

Hell yea! My frame is from the 50's. I love old UK track frames. Click the stan miles link in my sig.

i love vintage frames, almost as much as vintage bourbon.

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I knew you were gonna jump on this thread, too. *high fives*

*slap*

just added your bike as a friend. seriously, they are like long lost brothers.

nice bikes chloe...!!! :)

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how vintage is vintage? 70s? i've got 2. is vintage a look or a way of crafting a frame or a period in time? 1970s might be recent, but the frames i have were built the exact same way by the exact same set of hands that made them in the 50s in a little mountainside shop in the fair city of verona. go chesini.

Haha. Velospace is the new myspace. I wish I knew more people who rode older frames, I want a vintage steel bike gang :P

70's counts, I have a total hardon for bikes from that era. My measure is if its older than me, its vintage, haha.

vamp your bikes are vintage and just about the classiest sh*t around.

ive heard most people say vintage is 25 years, though a few people trying to claim the title (to sell their junk) have lowered it to 20 years or less.

vintage for me isn't simply about what year the thing was made. its a combo of the above-mentioned things. is the process that produces the frame the same as it was "back in the day"? is the end product still categorically "old school looking"? is the style and class mixing into a nice dreamy dose of nostalgic radness? yep yep and yep. then it's vintage. --- thanks for the compliments on my bikes! the paramount is for sure vintage, as is the chesini. the maruishi is only vintage to me and my own personal history for private reasons.

Nothing but lust for vintage frames. I've got a Miyata track (yet to be built up) that's pushing the 20 year envelope. Not the best frame, but good enuff. I've also got an early 80s Mariposa touring frame that looks like it's been through a war. Paris-Brest-Paris, that was a war wasn't it?

Give me crust anyday

pics?

velospaced out. the bike itself is friends, i believe, with 128's bike! it is shiney blue with a cat on the couch in the picture.

http://velospace.org/files/chesini1.jpg

that's what i'm talking about. nice stem!

christ schloe mo, nice bikes!

thankyaverymuch

thanks! its been on loan to a buddy of mine since xmas. someone had the nerve to shout to him "that thing is unsafe" while he was at freewheel on valencia. i dont know who that person was, but they should learn a few things! that stem is probably safer than any stem available on the retail market today. its made by nitto for keirin frame builders to size frames/stems to the racers. i rock it major taylor style. its no ttt or cinelli or ancient arnold schwinn, but it sure works! and it is h-e-a-v-y

What was he doing at valencia freewheel? Has he no shame?

i know, i know. when you need a tube, you need a tube.

The aforementioned Chesini is undeniably hot

I know I just posted about this a week ago -- but here is a pic of my recently acquired 1975 Paramount. My first, but I hope not my last, vintage track bike!

I like the idea of a vintage track bike gang.